Insecticide.



Flt-\N K X. LECIINER,

PATENT oFF cE.

OF (/III OiMK),v ILLINOIS.

INSECTICIDE.

Specification of netuers Patent.

Patented. Aug. 10, 1909.

Application filed A ril 14, 1909. Serial No., 489,830;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1,.FRANK XAVIOIR Luau- NER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful .lmprovements in Insecticides, ol' which the l'ollowing is a specification. My composition consists ingredients, combined in of the following stated, viz:

Benzin- 1 gallon. Poke-root- 1 ounce. um 1 ounce. Redpepper 2-} ounces.

In use the composition is applied to places ing adapted to cause practically instantaneous destruction of the latter.

e composition has been especially pared to effect the destruction of household vermin, such as' bedbugs and cockroaches, it may, however, be used with great effect upon a 1 kinds. of insects.

en applied the benzin serves as a vehithe proportions ole to carry the pokeroot, alum and red pepper into cracks and crevices and then evaporates leaving said substances in the form of a i crustf Besides acting as a ositive oison 1 toward insects, -the smell oi the po ceroot keeps them away. 'lheproportion of pokef root used may be varied somewhat but that given will be found to give satisfactory re sults.

1 claim:

1. The herein described composition of matter to be used as an insecticide consisting o" benzin, pokeroot, alum and red pepper.

2. The herein described composition of ,matter to be used as an insecticide consisting of benzin, one gallon, poke root, one ounce, alum, one ounce, and red epper two and one-half ounces, substantial y as described.

In testimony whereof I have name to this specification in the two subscribing witnesses;

FRANK X. LECHNER.

presence of \Vitnesses JOSHUA It. III. PoTTs,

HOGAN.

JANET E.

signed my 

